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IreneSwift's avatar
IreneSwift
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago

Problems in IP

Why is it that when my sim goes to the seasonal festival in IP, there is never anyone there, other than the food vendors? In most worlds, there are always several other sims there. So it's no problem to get someone to have a water balloon fight or soccer shootout with. But in IP, if my sim stays at the festival all day, if she's lucky, one or two service sims will show up, and maybe stay long enough for a soccer shootout, but not for a chat afterward. It can't be that there are too many other places for them to go, because in the custom worlds I made, there are far more community lots than in IP, yet there are still always plenty of sims at the festival.

Also, in my current game, I have one resort open, but there are no workers of any kind there. I even saved, bulldozed, and replaced the resort, but there are still no workers there. So my sim can't check in, and won't be able to use the facilities there. And of course, there's no one else there either. I use NRaas Register, and for most of my saves I have all of the resort worker pools set to 0, but for this one I changed the settings all back to default when I set up my game there. So that shouldn't be preventing them from working at the resort. One of the service sims my sim did a soccer shootout against was a resort worker. He left as soon as she won the shootout and tried to talk to him, and I thought he was going to work, but nope. He didn't.
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    7 years ago
    On the festival lot, you may not have a ton of land-based community lots vying for sims' attention, but the open water is a pretty big draw. If you use NRaas Tagger, can you see where everyone else in town is at the time?

    On the resort, is there a Role Sim assigned to the check-in desk? This can be checked and the assignment changed using Register on the desk. Possibly the sim assigned is stuck somewhere such as being overdue to age up and cannot make it to their assigned station?
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    7 years ago
    Have you tried MC resetting the resort lot and moving the front desk around in case something you can't see is blocking it? Checked for invisible social jigs stuck on the lot?
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    7 years ago
    Resetting Everything does reset the lots along the way, so there shouldn't be any need to Reset Lot separately. MC Resets do not remove jigs (though I agree that if no one has ever used the lot for anything it would be pretty strange for them to be there), bulldozing and replacing the lot with a copy does.

    I would also want to know where these front desk attendant sims are, or rather where the one currently assigned is, when they are supposed to be on duty. Are they age-stuck? Can you MC > Focus on them or do they seem to be off the map hibernating?
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    7 years ago
    I think I'm getting lost here someplace, but part of that is due to my somewhat limited experience with resorts.

    There is a front desk at each one. A Role Sim, just one, is assigned to it or at least should be if the resort is "active." Register should tell you who it is. So where are they, what are they doing, are they overdue to age up and getting stuck for that reason, and can you reassign the desks with a specific NPC sim whom you know is not stuck? This may not be the right way to approach things, but I would be less concerned about the other resort maintenance workers whom I assume will follow later once this one is on duty and you can check in.
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    7 years ago
    MC adjusting their ages downward is how I would have done that, yes. Or you could TA them and hope their newly spawned replacements won't be out of range on their ages but as you saw that isn't always as effective as we want.

    For future reference, to see/change which Role Sim is assigned to a particular object like the check-in desk, use the Register menu on the object itself.
  • IreneSwift's avatar
    IreneSwift
    Seasoned Newcomer
    7 years ago
    Well, that didn't work either. The resort worker still doesn't show up. I guess I'll just close those resorts. After all, there is now a resort that does have workers present, and my sim is making a profit from it. That's a bonus. Plus, she can check in for free - bigger bonus!
  • CravenLestat's avatar
    CravenLestat
    7 years ago
    "KATENESS;c-16701752" wrote:
    Hey random question: How do you open resorts that you don't own? I'm in IP and the two big fancy resorts aren't open. Everything is greyed out and you can't do anything because there is never anyone on staff at the front desk.

    I remember back when IP first came out I was able to send one of my sims to stay at them. But now I can't. I feel like I'm missing something really obvious.


    You can choose real estate/travel service on your phone then resorts

    Can try going in Edit Town mode and getting rid of old desk placing a new one should fix it.
  • IreneSwift's avatar
    IreneSwift
    Seasoned Newcomer
    7 years ago
    @KATENESS To open an existing resort in IP, you have to be in build or buy mode. You can either do it in Edit Town, or just enable testing cheats and shift click on the lot and choose "build (or buy) on this lot." Then ctrl+shift+click on the resort desk and choose Resort Management. You then have all the same options as you have in live mode with a resort your sim owns.

    @SPARKY1922 Yeah, it didn't cost my sim anything to take over Hobart's, and just removing all the brambles and buckhorn gave her money to make a few improvements. By then she had also finally opened that level 10 treasure chest in Pearl's Deep, so she had enough money of her own to buy one blueprint room, so I got the party room with the food stand and firewalk pit. She made $342 on the first morning and then sold the large plutonium ingot and large cut rainbow gem she got in the treasure chest at the consignment shop for over $20,000, so I did a few more upgrades, including upgrading the tower, and the next morning she got $542. So it's paying for itself, and when she moves away from IP, she'll get a good chunk of money from selling it. So it was a good financial move.
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    7 years ago
    @SPARKY1922 - If you get an unroutable or stuck sim warning with a sim's thumbnail on it, you should be able to right-click on on their thumbnail to go to where they are. Or use MC >Focus (from City Hall or an in game computer) on them since you would know their name by the warning. If the sim has already been reset, then you may not be able to focus the game camera on them right away and doing so would no longer lead to wherever the problem really was.
  • IreneSwift's avatar
    IreneSwift
    Seasoned Newcomer
    7 years ago
    As it turned out, she was able to get the resort to five star, by adding just a few items each day, based on what visitors complained about in their reviews. At the end of the process, I needed to add a wedding pavilion to get it to five stars, which I thought was not going to be affordable. But I checked the blueprints, and found it would cost less than $5000. So I extended boardwalk from the original VIP bungalow and made a platform for the wedding blueprint. At the same time, I added a third VIP bungalow between the wedding pavilion on the original VIP bungalow, but reached the point where she was down to only $34 in cash and couldn't finish decorating it. So I waited until she got her profits in the morning and finished it. Now she's getting $3762 every day in profits, a nice income that allows her to pursue her skill building without worrying about how she's going to pay her bills.

    Building resorts is fun. Maybe when she gets to the elder stage, I'll move her back to IP, or maybe to ST, and have her build one from the ground up. I did that before with another sim, using the Spanish blueprints. I should try making one from the ground up with the beach blueprints.

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